Thursday, June 16, 2011What's new in ASP .NET MVC 3.0

Whether you are contemplating adding ASP .NET MVC to your toolbox or have already been using ASP .NET MVC 1 or 2, there is something for you in this session. John will present the major new features in ASP .NET MVC 3, which include the Razor -based views, sessionless controllers, new SEO enhancements, new helper methods and Dependency Injection enhancements to name a few. In addition, John will illustrate how to incorporate IIS Express into your development efforts. Time will be allocated for general questions you may have regarding Visual Studio, general development topics, etc.

Speaker:

John Petersen

John Petersen has been developing software for 20 years, starting with dBase, Clipper and FoxBase + thereafter, migrating to FoxPro and Visual FoxPro and Visual Basic. Other areas of concentration include Oracle and SQL Server - versions 6-2008. John is the Philadelphia Microsoft Practice Director for CEI America (www.ceiamerica.com), a Microsoft Gold Partner. From 1995 to 2001, he was a Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP. Today, his emphasis is on ASP MVC .NET applications. He is a current Microsoft ASP .NET MVP. In 1999, he wrote the definitive whitepaper on ADO for VFP Developers. In 2002, he wrote the Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Databases for Que Publishing. John was a co-author of Visual FoxPro Enterprise Development from Prima Publishing with Rod Paddock, Ron Talmadge and Eric Ranft. He was also a co-author of Visual Basic Web Development from Prima Publishing with Rod Paddock and Richard Campbell. In 2004, John graduated from the Rutgers University School of Law with a Juris Doctor Degree. He passed the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Bar exams and was in private practice for several years.